"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
Rock them, rock them, lullaby." Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissell.
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
"Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;" Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissell.
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
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